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Originally Posted by injury log
If you're sitting in a GM office deciding whether to invest $100 million in a player, you probably want at least a bit of information about how that player will affect your chances of winning games. And our understanding of what goes into winning games has evolved a lot over the last few decades.
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Basically, and no offense is meant to anyone here, I can tell you what to expect from the basic stats, I don't need everything broken down to the nth degree. All the sabermetric stats are derived from formulas that use the basic stats, therefore all the info you need is right there in the basic stats.
My guess is people who need all these newfangled stats in the real world, for some reason, are either unable to figure things out by what they see from players or they just don't believe what their eyes are showing them. I have never looked at any sabermetric stat in my life and yet I know as much about players and their value as anyone who comes to their conclusion of a player by poring over those sabermetrics. I wonder how that's possible.